President Donald Trump's administration has scheduled three more executions in the coming months, saying it is acting in the interest of crime victims. The victims' family will take their appeal "to the US Supreme Court in an effort to seek reversal," their lawyer Baker Kurrus said in a statement on Sunday. "The federal government has put this family in the untenable position of choosing between their right to witness Danny Lee's execution and their own health and safety," Kurrus said. The last execution at federal level was in 2003. Peterson, the mother and grandmother of Lee's victims, opposes the sentence and has asked the administration several times to grant him clemency.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 13, 2020 05:03 UTC